You may be used to a day that includes answering eleven phone calls, attending two meetings, and writing three reports; when you a...re at home with an infant you will feel you have accomplished quite a lot if you have a shower and a sit-down meal in the same day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, How much do you owe my master?' He answered, A hundred jugs o...f olive oil.' He said to him, Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor, in case someone more distinguished th...an you has been invited by your host...But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, Friend, move up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on theHouse of Saxe Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of... />profit or popularity than such pictures of domestic life incountry villages as I deal in. But I could no more write aromance than an epic poem. I could not sit down to write aserious romance under any other motive than to save my life; andif it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relaxinto laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should behung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep tomy own style and go on in my own way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a co...nvincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »